Names That Mean Moor

An English family name used a few generations ago as an Anglicization of Moses, but hardly heard since th 1950s.

A common family name in Scotland, occasionally used as a first.

Boys' names beginning with "El" were all the rage in the 1910s, but today Elmore - along with Elwin, Ellsworth and others - has barely been used for decades. It has literary connections through writer Elmore "Dutch" Leonard. More recently, several children's book characters have given the name a cuddly feel: Holly Hobbie's Elmore the Porcupine, and Elmore Green in Lauren Child's "The New Small Person".

This Celtic surname is familiar but barely used at all as a first name.